STANNAH STAIRLIFTS

Working with natural materials like leather presents a unique manufacturing challenge. Natural hides contain blemishes and scars, and manually cutting components often results in significant material wastage. For a major manufacturer like Stannah, relying on a system of shipping, receiving, and cutting full hides in-house would lead to increased processing time, greater material loss, and higher overall costs. The challenge was to deliver the quality of genuine leather while simultaneously ensuring maximum material yield and production efficiency.

To overcome these challenges and streamline Stannah’s production line, Boyriven delivers a superior, efficient solution: pre-cut, ready-to-use leather kits rather than shipping full hides for Stannah to cut themselves.

Our precise, technology-driven process ensures absolute quality control and maximum material utilisation:

1. Impeccable Pre-Inspection: Every leather hide is first meticulously pre-inspected. Any natural scars, blemishes, or imperfections are identified and precisely marked for exclusion.
2. Advanced Digital Plotting: The prepared hides are then loaded onto a cutting bed where a computer system scans the material. Using advanced software, the computer plots the exact location of all required components, efficiently navigating around the marked-up defects. This ensures the maximum number of perfect cut pieces from every single hide.

This sophisticated, digitally-controlled process offers distinct advantages over traditional, hand-cutting methods.

The key results and benefits for Stannah include:

• Significant Cost Savings: By leveraging computer-optimised plotting, Boyriven guarantees the most efficient use of material possible. This radical reduction in wastage directly translates into substantial cost savings for Stannah, ensuring their material spend is maximised.
• Superior Quality Control: Our rigorous pre-inspection process ensures that every leather piece we supply is free from blemishes, maintaining the premium aesthetic that defines the Solus and Sofia models.
• Streamlined Operations: Supplying a complete, pre-cut kit eliminates the need for Stannah to manage the complex, time-consuming process of hide inspection, marking, and cutting in-house, simplifying their assembly process and driving production efficiency.